Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 30, 1914
Abdul the D—d is said to feel it keenly that, when the British decided to appoint a Sultan in Egypt, they did not remember that he was out of a job.
Meanwhile Abbas Pasha is reported to have had a presentiment that he would one day be replaced by Kamel Pasha. It is said that for some time past he would start nervously whenever he heard the band of a Highland regiment playing The Kamel's a-coming.
We have very little doubt that the German newspapers are publishing photographs of Whitby Abbey, and claiming the entire credit for its ruined condition.
It remained for The Times to chronicle the Germans' most astounding feat. It happened at Hartlepool. A chimney nearly 200 feet in height, on the North-Eastern Railway hydraulic power-station, was, our contemporary tells us, grazed by a projectile about 100 yards above its base.
The Archbishop of York, who was one of the Kaiser's few apologists, is said to feel keenly that potentate's ingratitude in selecting for bombardment two unprotected bathing-places in his Grace's diocese.
It is widely rumoured that Wilhelm is conferring a special medal on the perpetrators of this and similar outrages, to be called the Kaiser-ye-Hun medal.
Some of the German newspapers have been organising a symposium on the subject of how to spend the coming Christmas. Herr Arthur von Gwinner, director of the Deutsche Bank, is evidently something of a humourist. More than ever, he says, in the exercise of works of love and charity. We rather doubt whether the Herr Direktor's irony will be appreciated in high quarters.
A message from Amsterdam says that there are signs in Berlin of discontent with the German Chancellor and his staff, and patriots are calling for a clean sweep. The difficulty, of course, is that, while there are plenty of sweeps in Germany, it is not easy to find a clean one.
Immediately after his arrival at Rome, says The Liverpool Echo , Prince Buelow proceeded to the Villa Malte, his usual residence at Rome, where he will stay until he takes up his quarters at the Caffarelli police. Our alleged harsh treatment of aliens fades into insignificance by the side of this!
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VOLUME 147.
December 30, 1914.
CHARIVARIA.
A Sensational Statement.
Another Impending Apology.
The Troubles of Neutrality.
THE WAR-LORD'S NEW YEAR'S EVE.
UNWRITTEN LETTERS TO THE KAISER.
NO. XII.
KILL OR CURE.
DISHONOURED
THE REAL HERO OF THE WAR.
R. G. A.
THE TEMPTATIONS OF A SOLDIER.
NEW YEAR NOVELTIES.
THE WATCH DOGS.
X.
THE RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL.
THE PEACE-MAKER.
A VOICE IN THE NIGHT.
REJECTED OFFERINGS.
THE IMPERIAL INFANTICIDE.
THE NEW ARMY TO THE FRONT.
THE NEXT?
Bombardment of Little Shrimpington by the German Fleet.
VICTORINE.
OUR BOOKING-OFFICE.
"KAISER BACK TO THE FRONT."
PUNCH IN THE TRENCHES.
Cartoons.
Articles.
Pictures and Sketches.